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What she still has is a surgeon's touch with the drop volley and the ability to cut off return angles with quick rushes to the net. Her serve has diminished to a mortal 97 m.p.h. Mortal, that is, when compared with her serve of five years ago. But what's a flaw or two when the achievement itself can never be erased by the passage of time...
Education is meant to do an impossible thing, to provide a mortal creature with a sense of the infinite. By so doing it would innoculate students against their limitations while fitting them to those limitations. This is one reason a Harvard education has taken me so long to get used to, and my Harvard education is why I am still not used to being human...
...world wants that life-power all to itself. Therefore it coins money, makes wars, divides itself into status groups etc. But comedy, tragedy, music, philosophy, history and politics are all expressions of the reality that power and mortal men alike are to serve life. So your education is meant to give you insights into this cardinal fact that every other institution you encounter must desperately hide because it cannot destroy. An individual can encompass the whole only in dream--or in the heartache of life, which is a version of dream, but a version of dream we are obligated...
...have written so much I obviously have little to tell you. Lately my selfrecriminations have ebbed in the discovery that 1) I m mortal, 2) I have flaws and weaknesses, 3) I am I, my own nature, which is my given nature. In the record of species achievement and purpose I have added my mite of awareness that, given to you or others, may help you be scornful or tearful or otherwise meaningful to yourselves to the end that your awareness be a mite added to species achievement and purpose...
Except, in this film, AIDS, which, as the constant threat of death, a death caused by this very exploitation of sexuality, the self-contradiction, the mortal self-contradiction of this exploration to the outermost of sensual consciousness is--to bring about the dilemma which is the storyline of the film, that is--a full exploration, through the three main characters (and the secondary as well) of how this threat of death alters their sensualist consciousness...